Mountain View

Authorities in Mountain View said a reported suspicious package Friday morning at Google’s headquarters was deemed safe and cleared the scene just before noon, according to Mountain View police.

A woman accused of hacking Capital One and at least 30 other organizations is a flight risk, a threat and should be kept locked up until her trial, U.S. prosecutors said in court documents filed ahead of a Friday detention hearing in Seattle. Paige Thompson, a former Amazon software engineer who goes by the online alias “erratic,” has a history...

A federal safety agency is sending a three-member team to investigate a fatal crash involving a Tesla electric car and a semitrailer that is strikingly similar to a 2016 crash involving another vehicle made by the company.

About 20 survivors of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor gathered in Hawaii Friday in remembrance of the thousands of lives lost when Japanese forces bombed the U.S. base 77 years ago.

About 20 survivors gathered at Pearl Harbor on Friday to pay tribute to the thousands of men lost in the Japanese attack 77 years ago. They joined dignitaries, active duty troops and members of the public in observing a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m., the time the bombing began on Dec. 7, 1941. John Mathrusse was an 18-year-old seaman...

Testing by AAA shows that electronic driver assist systems on the road today may not keep vehicles in their lanes or spot stationary objects in time to avoid a crash. The tests brought a warning from the auto club that drivers shouldn’t think that the systems make their vehicles self-driving, and that they should always be ready to take control....

Hundreds of Google employees from the main campus and the Google X lab in Mountain View are expected to walk out Thursday because they’re not happy with the way the company has handled sexual misconduct in the workplace.

Google’s robotic car spin-off Waymo is poised to become the first to test fully driverless vehicles on California’s public roads.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Google and other U.S. tech companies of rigging search results about him “so that almost all stories & news is BAD.” He offered no evidence of bias, but a top adviser said the White House is “taking a look” at whether Google should face federal regulation....
Google pushed back sharply, saying Trump’s claim simply wasn’t...

Tropical Storm Lane ranks as the second-biggest rainmaker from a tropical cyclone in the United States since 1950. Lane dumped 52.02 inches (132 centimeters) of rain on Mountain View, Hawaii, from Wednesday through Sunday, the National Weather Service said Monday. The highest total was 60.58 inches (154 centimeters), measured in Nederland, Texas, during Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Lane broke the...

A single post by a good Samaritan on Twitter has given a homeless unemployed worker new hope. David Casarez stood in an intersection on Mountain View holding a sign that read “Homeless, hungry 4 success, take a resume.”

Google barely raised the number of women and under-represented minorities among its ranks, while it got less white and more Asian over the past year, according to the search giant’s fifth annual diversity report.

A federal safety agency’s investigation into a fiery Tesla crash that left two Fort Lauderdale teens dead just days away from graduation is underway. The National Transportation Safety Board said a four-person team will focus on the emergency response to the post-crash fire in the battery of a Tesla Model S.

In a new statement released by Tesla Friday, it was revealed that moments before Model X crashed on Mar. 23 on U.S. 101 near Mountain View, “Autopilot was engaged with the adaptive cruise control follow-distance set to minimum.” According to the automotive company, the driver received “several visual and audible” hands-on warnings earlier in the drive but his hands were...

An accident caused a Tesla to catch fire Friday morning, closing all four lanes of southbound U.S. Highway 101 in Mountain View and causing significant delays during the morning rush hour.

When Song Hong used to tell his grandchildren about his childhood, he would joke that they were “country folks” from a rugged and rural corner of the world that none of their fellow Americans had ever heard of, or likely ever would. Then one day, from his home in California, he saw the news: That rugged and rural corner of...

YouTube has temporarily suspended all ads from video star Logan Paul’s channels after what it calls a pattern of behavior unsuitable for advertisers. In an emailed statement, YouTube said that the videos on Paul’s channels are also “broadly damaging to the broader creator community.”

Antioch police on Monday made an arrest in the 1980 abduction, rape and killing of a teenage girl, the department said.

If police are meant to protect and serve, Mountain View officers took service to a whole new level on Friday.

Google’s parent company is throwing its financial support behind ride-hailing service Lyft, deepening its rift with market leader Uber. Alphabet Inc., which gets most of its money from Google’s digital ad network, is leading a $1 billion investment in Lyft that values the privately held company at $11 billion. The investment announced Thursday is being made through Alphabet’s CapitalG venture...